The first day was really T-1 since all the planned festivities were starting on Monday. I headed over to the hotel to get my badge and was delighted to find that it was right next to the Boston Public Library. Here you can see the head of BPL, Bernie Margolis [and friend] telling a TV crew to get off the plaza in front of the library.

linking directly to images makes them somehow turn to raunchy porn and/or emails to your sysadmin, whichever sounds worse. be a good net.citizen, link to the pages the images are on instead.